[access-uk] Re: Flash VS HTML5

From: Adrian Higginbotham <adrian.higginbotham@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

To: "'access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:38:51 +0100

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Certain chrome and opera don't have decent screenreader support no. Firefox 4.0
is currently in beta. The only one I wasn't sure about was the degree of html5
support in firefox 3.7 hence my tentative statement. Doesn't though alter the
reality which is that although html5 is very definitely a welcome development
for accessibility of multi media content it's going to bequite some time before
we can reasonably expect appropriate assistive technology, and and a supporting
web brwser to be the default for the majority.
Adrian Higginbotham
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From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Jonathan
Sent: 21 July 2010 20:39
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Flash VS HTML5
Adrian Higginbotham wrote:
> given that there aren’t any web browsers that
> support html5 yet, or certainly not stable releases of those that work with
> screenreaders
Are any of the following stable releases of browsers compatible with
screen-readers? They all support native html5 audio.
Safari supports: mp3
Opera and Firefox have done a Steve Jobs and only support ogg
Google Chrome is the winner with support for both mp3 and ogg
The only current major browser I know which doesn't support html5
audio is IE8, but it's coming in IE9.
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